30 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "LOS NOMBRES DEL MIEDO", SEMINARIOS MATADERO ESTUDIOS CRÍTICOS

“Los nombres del miedo” (Matadero Estudios Críticos) es un programa en forma de ciclo de conferencias y conversaciones, comisariado por Inés Plasencia y Víctor Mora con la colaboración de Patricia Raijenstein en Intermediae Matadero. El programa se inaugura con una llamada a participar, a través de un Call for papers/projects. Llamada a proyectos artísticos y de investigación destinado a la reflexión teórica y a la presentación de proyectos artísticos. Se ofrece como un lugar de encuentro en el que pensar formas de nombrar y renombrar el miedo desde posicionamientos críticos, posibilitando un ejercicio tanto de diagnóstico como de reapropiación colectiva. Proyectos que entiendan el aprendizaje como resultado de la colaboración y la práctica, en proceso o finalizados.

A quién va dirigido: La convocatoria está dirigida a todas las personas que se sientan interpeladas por la idea de pensar desde la práctica, especialmente desde los ámbitos de la creación artística (artes plásticas, literatura, música, cine, dramaturgia, danza, performance, mediación y educación…) y su investigación (bellas artes, historia del arte, teoría del arte, artes escénicas, humanidades…), así como otros lugares afines como la antropología, la comunicación, la sociología o la filosofía, entre otras, a través de investigaciones relacionadas con las prácticas artísticas, el sonido, la literatura y el cuerpo y/o la imagen.

*CFP* "HISTORY OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND DIGITAL MEDIA HISTORIOGRAPHY", ECREA COMMUNICATION HISTORY SECTION WORKSHOP

History of Digital Media and Digital Media Historiography

A ECREA Communication History Section Workshop 

co-sponsored by the ICA Communication History Division

Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg

Luxembourg, 2-4 February 2022

 

The digital turn has had a transformative effect on all media, and it has also influenced the way in which media and communication history is shaped, written and disseminated. First, it has had an impact in terms of devices, distribution, production and content, as well as access and participation. Looking at these changes with the lenses of history is beneficial, because it helps contextualizing “revolutions” and continuities with the past. Consequently, the history of digital media can be seen as a new label for media histories related to digital politics, economics, technologies and cultures shaped by digitalisation. But it also deals with analogue media which have been digitised or have resisted digitisation is a new and relevant field.

*CFP* "THE SENSE OF AN ENDING AND THE IMAGINATION OF THE END: APOCALYPSE, DISASTER AND MESSIANIC TIME", Nº 11 (2022) ISSUE, COLLOQUIA HUMANISTICA

Colloquia Humanistica is the interdisciplinary journal of humanities of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Our aim is to introduce a variety of perspectives in discussing contemporary issues. We would like to propose a unique space that allows an intensive intellectual debate and a dynamic exchange of thoughts between researchers of different perspectives in humanities and social sciences. Colloquia Humanistica kindly invites submissions of manuscripts that address the topic:

The sense of an ending and the imagination of the end: apocalypse, disaster and messianic time

Deleuze calls the New Testament’s Apocalypse “the book of Zombies” highlighting not only its connection with death but the influence on the contemporaneity. Apocalyptical visions go beyond Christian eschatology and permeate our present imagination. Not as much with the already bygone symbolism or the terror of bloody carnage, as with the vague sense of an ending, fuelled by historical conditions – the Holocaust, nuclear crisis, or more contemporary global threats of viral pandemic or climate change.

29 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "DESARROLLOS CONTEMPORÁNEOS SOBRE MEDIOS, CULTURA Y SOCIEDAD: ARGENTINA Y AMÉRICA LATINA", CONGRESO MESO 2021

MESO invita a la contribución de artículos inéditos para la conferencia “Desarrollos Contemporáneos Sobre Medios, Cultura y Sociedad: Argentina y América Latina”. La conferencia, organizada por el Centro de Estudios sobre Medios y Sociedad en Argentina, tendrá lugar los días viernes 26 y sábado 27 de noviembre de 2021. La modalidad de esta edición será híbrida.

Este será el séptimo Congreso Anual que MESO organiza con el propósito de intercambiar conocimiento de investigación sobre las interacciones entre medios, cultura y sociedad. Para ver más información sobre los Congresos anteriores puede visitar nuestro sitio web. Contamos con el auspicio del Center for Global Culture and Communication de Northwestern University y del Center for Latinx Digital Media.

Se solicitan artículos que contribuyan a la discusión sobre medios, cultura y sociedad de manera empírica, teórica o metodológica, y que amplíen el conocimiento sobre esta temática en el ámbito nacional y regional. Los artículos podrán referirse a distintos aspectos de la comunicación, los medios y los bienes y servicios culturales expresados a través del periodismo, el entretenimiento–cine, teatro, televisión, música, etc.– la publicidad y el marketing, las relaciones públicas, las redes sociales, y los videojuegos, entre otros.

*CFP* "MEDIATING ARCTIC GEOGRAPHIES: CONTEMPORARY IMAGINARIES OF THE CIRCUMPOLAR WORLD", CONFERENCE

Mediating Arctic Geographies: Contemporary Imaginaries of the Circumpolar World

Inari, Finland

24-26 January 2022

 

Since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the Arctic (understood here as the circumpolar region around and north of the Arctic Circle) has entered worldwide public discussion to an unprecedented extent. As a global climate archive and the site of various scrambles for resources, it has become the centre of attention within debates on climate change and global geopolitics. The international stir created by the planting of a Russian flag under the Arctic sea ice in 2007 and a Chinese flag at the North Pole in 2012, the politicisation of the recovery of the two shipwrecks from John Franklin’s disastrous 1845 expedition in 2014 and 2016, and Donald Trump’s controversial overturning of Barack Obama’s ban on oil drilling in the Arctic are spectacular examples of this new hypervisibility of the Arctic in international politics and global media.

*CFP* "INDIGENOUS AFRICAN LANGUAGE MEDIA: PAST, PRESENT AND THE FUTURE", BOOK CHAPTER

Indigenous African language media, also referred to as ethnic or minority language media in some contexts, encompass tools of communication, socialisation and community that Africans used during pre-colonial periods and are still in existence despite the advent of Western-styled media.
 
The research entity of Indigenous Language Media in Africa is inviting contributions in the form of essays and articles from interested individuals to honour his contributions to these various fields of knowledge in communication and journalism studies. These will be published in the form of a double blind peer reviewed festschrift. Possible topics to explore for submission to this book include:
  • Media Representations: representations of gender, race, class and ethnicity in minority/African indigenous language news media;
  • Practice-based studies: Cases studies that demonstrate the use of minority/African indigenous media of drama, songs, folklore, theatre for development communication or democratisation;
  • Media texts and contents: Studies that utilise discourse analysis, thematic analysis and content analysis to analyse minority/African indigenous language media constructions of social reality in Africa;

*CFP* "VFX AND FANS: PARTICIPATORY CULTURE AND THE INDUSTRY", SPECIAL ISSUE, KINEPHANOS JOURNAL

Interactions between creators from the entertainment industry and the fan community have been around for a long time. In 1891, Holmes fans reacted very strongly to the famous detective death. It resulted in a flood of angry letters sent to author Conan Doyle, who resurrected him in a subsequent episode. Even the Hollywood star system was first motivated by the fans’ desire to know their favorite actors appearing as anonymous shadows on the screen. Later on, communities gathered around sci-fi magazines such as Hugo Gernsbach's Amazing Stories in 1926. It was a decisive moment that saw the birth of "fandom" as we know it today, and it certainly contributed to the emergence of audiences known as "cultists", a term coined by Matt Hills (2002), which is a type of public that is increasingly knowledgeable, who feels a certain "empowerment" towards fetishized works. 

The end of the 20th century, with the development and democratization of digital technologies, has witnessed the rise of this new consumer-producer paradigm that thumbs its nose at the ideology of the Frankfurt School's passive consumer. Without forgetting that the modern fan is the product of a long line of popular works and "B-movies", from Flash Gordon (1936) to the science fiction films of the 1940s and 1950s in the United States (with the rise of communism and its alien invasion films), from Star Trek in the 60s to Star Wars in 70s - a wave on which the franchise is still "surfing". Special effects films, a cinema of attraction that traditionally places "the effect" at the center (Gunning), have always fascinated the public, but always from a distance without being able to really interact with them or create or propose their alternative versions. The only interventions possible were, until now, centered on "a posteriori" actions, via journal sections of readers' letters, for example, or web forums, without much impact on the result.

28 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "LGBTQIA+ FANTASTIKA GRAPHICS", A DIGITAL SYMPOSIUM

“Fantastika” – a term appropriated from a range of Slavonic languages by John Clute – embraces the genres of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror, but can also include Alternate History, Gothic, Steampunk, Young Adult Dystopic Fiction, or any other radically imaginative narrative space. Our goal is to bring together academics, independent researchers, creators, and audiences who share an interest in this diverse range of fields with the aim of opening up new dialogues, productive controversies, and critical collaborations.

Following the 2020-pandemic hiatus, we are pleased to re-launch our annual conferences this year as a digital symposium. LGBTQIA+ Fantastika Graphics focuses on the graphic novel medium in its widest possible remit (comic books, manga, and other such productions). We are interested in works that contain representations of the LGBTQIA+ community, relationships, and full spectrum of identities.

We welcome abstracts for 15-minute papers or panels of 2-4 people on LGBTQIA+ Fantastika as they occur in the graphic form.

Some suggested topics are:

*CFP* "AMIGO-ENEMIGO. LAS FRANJAS INVISIBLES DEL ESPACIO POLÍTICO", II COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL PALIMPSESTOS PERSPECTIVAS CRÍTICAS DEL NORTE DE MÉXICO

II Coloquio Internacional Palimpsestos Perspectivas Críticas del Norte de México

Amigo - Enemigo. Las franjas invisibles del espacio político

Del 28 al 30 de octubre (coloquio en formato híbrido)

 

La Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (MÉXICO), la Universidad de Playa Ancha, Valparaíso (CHILE) y el Centro de Investigación Iberoamericano de Maguncia-Germersheim /Leipzig (CIIA, Alemania) celebran este coloquio del 28 al 30 de octubre de 2021 en Chihuahua (México).

Ejes temáticos:

  • Significaciones desde lo local y lo global: Visitaciones/Revisitaciones al norte mexicano: exotismos y postexotismos

*CFP* "BLACK AND QUEER, MUSIC ON SCREEN", ISSUE 6.2, LIQUID BLACKNESS: JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND BLACK STUDIES

This special issue of liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies proposes to work on Black Queer expression in audiovisual musics cutting across histories of the avant-garde, popular audiovisuality, and frameworks both transnational and critically transhistorical. The goal of the issue is to set up the framework for a survey of Black and Queer musicality in audiovisual media so as to suggest “non-contemporaneous” dialogues between and across historical registers and media platforms, so that the critical expressive power of non-conforming persons of color become a given rather than an alibi, an absence, or a projection.
 
 
Topics List
  • Black queer practices of exceeding and disabling technology in the form of musical, audiovisual technics
  • Archival recovery, fictive archiving, and critical fabulation of the archive through voice, sound, music, and musical audiovisuality

*CFP* "HOLLYWOOD REFRAMING", MONOGRAPHS OR EDITED VOLUMES

Announcing the Reframing Hollywood series at Mississippi University Press.

The Reframing Hollywood series will feature dynamic and original short monographs and edited collections, each of which explore a single film of significant cultural impact which has emerged from the American film industry since the turn of the new millennium. These vibrant critical explorations of contemporary American film will offer a stimulating, academic, yet accessible interrogation of a single work from a variety of critical perspectives.

The inaugural volume in the series, Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon by Terence McSweeney, is the first in-depth study of one of Marvel’s most successful and culturally influential films. Future volumes in the series will focus on films from such popular genres as science fiction, horror, superhero films, action, comedy, war, animation, and a variety of others. Each contribution is intended to offer challenging, up-to-date, and compelling insights into contemporary American cinema and what it means to the world.

Each manuscript in the series should maintain an overall word count between 40,000 and 60,000 words.

27 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "COVID-19 NOW AND THEN: REFLECTIONS ON MOBILE COMMUNICATION AND THE PANDEMIC", SPECIAL ISSUE, MOBILE MEDIA & COMMUNICATION JOURNAL

In this special issue, Mobile Media & Communication Journal is looking for future oriented pieces that analyze how the pandemic has shaped and changed our mobile communication, sociability and networked urban mobility practices around the world. We welcome papers that might take the lessons learned during this pandemic and consider how these lessons can help us in the future. We particularly welcome contributions that analyze the impacts of the pandemic in the practices of minoritized populations, especially in the Global South.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
  • The future of urban networked mobility in both Global North and South
  • The shift to more sustainable forms of micromobiity, particularly focusing on the integration between transportation and mobile apps
  • New forms of experiencing urban and public spaces via mobile technologies that take into account active mobility and walking
  • The mobile-guided gig economy for delivery of services
  • The development of location-based apps that can help us prepare for the next pandemic
  • The future of contact-tracing apps, and their relationship with privacy and surveillance

*CFP* "SERIALITY RESEARCH", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL FOR LITERARY AND INTERMEDIAL CROSSINGS

The Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (JLIC) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal. It publishes high-quality, innovative research engaging with literary and intermedial phenomena from various methodological angles and a wide range of disciplines including studies on literature, theatre, media and culture. The e-journal is supported by an international editorial board and aimed at an academic readership. JLIC offers an online publication platform to researchers from various fields engaging either directly or indirectly with the study of hybrid literary and/or intermedial phenomena. Seriality has become “an endemic feature of our twenty-first-century, hypermediated world” (Lindner 2014, ix) permeating contemporary literature, theatre, tv-series, feature films, narrative games, podcasts, YouTube channels, Instagram and other forms of storytelling social media.

Seriality is traditionally associated with repetition and variation. However, our interest seems to have shifted to the dynamic qualities of seriality. What strikes us and interests us today is not so much repetition but evolution, the development of (story) lines. As a result, the narrative aspects of seriality appear to grow in importance, which seems to go hand in hand with the rise of what is covered by the broad umbrella term ‘storytelling’ (sometimes ‘complex storytelling’, e.g. Mittell 2015). Although seriality is often explicitly linked to popular culture (e.g. Kelleter 2017), an increased interest in ‘seriality as a strategy’ can be observed in all kinds of art forms. Seriality also seems to be an important element in multi, cross and transmedial storytelling as serial narrative strategies spill from one media to another. To the idea of a Serial Shakespeare as “an infinite variety of appropriations in American TV drama” (Bronfen 2020) Ivo Van Hove and Internationaal Theater Amsterdam recently added not just their theatrical serial Romeinse Tragedies (2007, Roman Tragedies) in a carefully reworked online streaming version (2021) but also a ‘classic’ weekly -thus not bingeable- ten-episode tv-serial on Dutch television (2021).

*CFP* "SHOWING THEORY TO KNOW THEORY: UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL SCIENCE CONCEPTS THROUGH ILLUSTRATIVE VIGNETTES", CATALOGUE E-CAMPUS ONTARIO

Funded by e-Campus Ontario, this collaborative, open educational resource (OER) will bring together a collection of 100+ short pedagogical pieces (500-1000 words) to help new learners understand complex theoretical concepts and disciplinary jargon from the critical social sciences. Each entry takes the form of an “illustrative vignette”—a short, evocative story, visual or infographic, poem, described photograph, or other audio-visual material. This OER will be of use across disciplines and community contexts, democratizing theory while linking it to practical, grounded experience. 
 
This FOLLOW-UP to our initial CFP is to gather submissions that address one of the remaining available terms in our catalogue. Please consult the online spreadsheet to select an available concept/term. Then email your Expression of Interest to the editors (contacts below), confirming the your selection AND the illustrative example that you would like to use. We will get back to you with any feedback. To create your vignette, follow the template attached to this CFP. Two sample vignettes are also included to provide examples of style, tone, and structure.

You may create your vignette as an expository text, story or narrative, illustration or infographic, poem, described photograph, or other audio-visual material.

*CFP* "CHANGES IN COMMUNICATION IN, FROM, AND ABOUT HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS", THEMATIC SECTION, STUDIES IN COMMUNICATION SCIENCES JOURNAL

We are seeking contributions for a thematic section of Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS) exploring changes in communication of higher education institutions. SComS is a peer-reviewed journal of communication and media research with platinum open-access (no article processing charges).

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are pivotal organizations in modern societies (Schäfer & Fähnrich, 2020). In past decades, the higher education sector has expanded considerably in many countries, with rapid increases in research output, growing student enrollment, and newly founded colleges and universities. New public management reforms and a growing need for societal legitimation have led many HEIs to prioritize communication, i.e., to establish communication offices, pursue branding, marketing, and reputation management, and to professionalize their communication efforts on traditional channels, websites, and social media (Davies & Horst, 2016; Elken, Stensaker, & Dedze, 2018; Marcinkowski, Kohring, Fürst, & Friedrichsmeier, 2014; Raupp & Osterheider, 2019; Schwetje, Hauser, Böschen, & Leßmöllmann, 2020; Vogler & Schäfer, 2020). This has resulted in competition for public visibility, involving researchers, HEI leadership, and professional communicators at central levels, research centers, and departments (Crettaz von Roten & Entradas, 2018; Entradas et al., 2020; Friedrichsmeier & Fürst, 2012; Koivumäki & Wilkinson, 2020; McKinnon, Black, Bobillier, Hood, & Parker, 2019; Rödder, 2020; Watermeyer & Lewis, 2018). 

26 de julio de 2021

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, THE 1ST GAMES AND SOCIAL IMPACT MEDIA RESEARCH LAB CONFERENCE

 The 1st Games and Social Impact Media Research Lab Conference (GLOW2021)


October 22, 2021 (Online)
 

The potential of games for social impact and inclusion is vast and ever-evolving. The Games and Social Impact Media Research Lab (GLOW) was created at Lusófona University to research, discover, and foster links between games studies in academia and civil society through educational and knowledge exchanges. GLOW’s main research interests are the social impact of games and play and how this impact can be transformed and advanced. A number of social groups continue to be underrepresented in the games industry’s priorities, and design knowledge needs to expand in relation to these groups and their specificities. GLOW is meant to advance existing research in the relationship between games and social outcomes, strengthening the sharing and production of new data evidence, new methodologies, and approaches in the field.

*CFP* "AND YET IT MOVES! ON CINEMA, MEDIA, AND MOBILITY", XXVIII INTERNATIONAL FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES CONFERENCE

And Yet It Moves! On Cinema, Media, and Mobility

XXVIII International Film and Media Studies Conference

November 2nd–5th 2021

On-line/Udine – Gorizia (IT)

 

The covid pandemic has dramatically revealed the high level of mobility in our contemporary society by, paradoxically, reducing human movement to almost zero, even if images, data, news, financial flows, material goods, and the virus itself have continued to circulate at full speed around the globe. The pandemic has provoked new configurations of the media system, pushing media adaptability and pervasiveness into unexpected scenarios, and accelerating technological and socio-cultural processes already underway (Keidl, Melamed, Hediger and Somaini 2021). As we seem to slowly regain our mobility, it seems fitting to reflect at large on the role historically played by cinema and media in shaping movement and space. 

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VISUAL MOTIFS OF POWER AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE

I International Conference Visual Motifs of Power and the Public Sphere


20 & 21 September, 2021
 
 
There is a significant tradition of studies on political iconography inspired by the central figure of Aby Warburg, which is continued on through Erwin Panofsky, Horst Bredekamp, Monica Centanni, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Patrick Boucheron, as well as the aforementioned Carlo Ginzburg. His emphasis on the central role played by visual motifs in the construction of public space converges with the investigations carried out by a large number of theorists from other fields, such as theory and art criticism (Boris Groys, Hito Steyerl, Harun Farocki), political philosophy (Giorgio Agamben), film studies (Nicole Brenez, Alain Bergala, Emmanuelle André), photography theory (Ariella Azoulay), social semiotics (Theo van Leeuwen), cognitive iconology (Ian Verstegen) and production studies (Banks, Caldwell, Du Guy, Thompson, and Burns), all of which pay attention to the levels of awareness and control over the images produced, whether in film and photojournalism, in the praxis of TV documentaries and reports or in online productions.

*CFP* CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION, FILM HISTORY BOOK SERIES

We are seeking proposals for complete/in-progress/planned manuscripts and edited collections for a proposed book series. The series will focus on film history: both the history of film as media texts and the history/evolution of the cinematic apparatus.

RIT press has expressed interest in this series and has asked that we secure some projects before moving forward with approval. 

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  • classical films, directors, and genres 
  • early cinematic technology 
  • historical advances in cinematic technology 
  • historical politics and propaganda in film 
  • historical analysis of the production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of film 
  • historical adaptations 
  • production histories – the studio system and beyond 

23 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "MEMORY, TRAUMA AND RECOVERY", INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE (ONLINE)

Memory, Trauma and Recovery

International Interdisciplinary Conference (Online)

16-17 September 2021

 

To remember means sometimes: to experience again. That is the case of trauma. However, recovery from trauma is also based on memory. So the question is not how to forget about bad memories, but how to remember and not suffer. During this conference we would like to concentrate on the phenomena of trauma and recovery, to look at how memory is involved in the traumatic experience and the recovery process and explore among other questions what we remember and forget, what causes suffering and how to deal with it.

We are interested in all aspects of traumatic experiences, in their individual and collective dimensions, in the past and in the present-day world. We would like to examine the role of memory in both falling into trauma and overcoming it. 

*CFP* "THE FUTURE OF MEDIA IN AFRICA: BUILDING RESILIENCE IN A COVID19 WORLD", AWIM 2021 CONFERENCE

AWiM 2021 Conference

The Future of Media in Africa: Building Resilience in a COVID19 World

2-3 November 2021, online

 

In this year’s virtual conference, we invite presentations on the impact of COVID19 on media in Africa, the gaps it revealed for media industries, women in media, and forward-looking solutions to address these.

COVID-19 has no doubt changed media industries. Our research into the impact of COVID-19 on East African women journalists found that a staggering 63% of respondents said their jobs had been affected during the pandemic. 52% of respondents were placed on unpaid leave. The industry also saw many organisational casualties, with some newsrooms shutting down completely. Alongside these impacts were changes in how we work and gather news. Sexual harassment also increased on the digital platforms which respondents were now using to engage with colleagues. According to a 2021 UNESCO report on online violence against women journalists, 73% of survey respondents said they had experienced online violence.

*CFP* "THE HOME", 2022 SPECIAL ISSUE, AUSTRALIAN FEMINIST STUDIES

Expressions of interest are sought for contributions to a planned 2022 special issue of Australian Feminist Studies (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) devoted to the topic of The Home.  We anticipate publishing wide-ranging sets of ideas that capture the current and emerging challenges and opportunities for feminist thinkers examining aspects of the home and housing more generally.

We welcome contributions from scholars in any discipline, including architecture, built environment, design, sociology, social policy, geography, politics, anthropology, cultural studies, film, and literature.

While the expectation is that contributions will be scholarly in orientation, less conventional provocations and manifestos may also be proposed.

Contributions can be between 6,000 words and 8,000 words for research articles.  Shorter polemical pieces up to 5,000 words can be considered for the ‘Feminist Debates’ section. Co-authored and multiple-voiced pieces are welcome.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed as per the journal’s policies.

22 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "QUESTIONING ETHICS IN DIGITAL CONTEXTS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCES", Nº 25, REVUE FRANÇAISE DES SCIENCES DE L'INFORMATION ET DE LA COMMUNICATION

Created two years ago, the Group on Ethics and the Digital in Information-Communication research (GENIC) is now an accredited working group of the French national scientific association for information and communication science (Société Française des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication - SFSIC). The group promotes work on questions of ethics affecting all information-communication processes, in a context marked by the growing presence of digital technologies, through the analysis of phenomena, practices, social interactions. Indeed, all fields of research are touched by ethical questions (we refer the reader to the volume Dynamics of Information-Communication Research edited by the Conference of French Research Centers in Information-communication Sciences), take for instance the research fields related to the media, to legal, communicational, or organizational issues, or the role and the place of technologies in methods of research and scientific publication, in particular through the design of algorithms and data processing.

Beyond analyzing research practice, work in information-communication ethics should also take into account the logics of actors and their productions embedded in discursive, socio-economic, cultural, political and regulatory realities of digital and communication practices. Faced with a generalization of social controversies, whether related to the health crisis, the environmental crisis, public health issues, etc. it appears essential today that information-communication researchers participate in public debates around ethics and prepare those on the questions to come.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, VOL. 14, Nº 1, JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA RESEARCH

The Journal of Communication and Media Research is a research-based and peer-reviewed journal published twice-yearly in the months of April and October by the Association of Media and Communication Researchers of Nigeria (CAC/IT/NO 111018). The journal is addressed to the African and international academic community and it accepts articles from all scholars, irrespective of country or institution of affiliation.

The focus of the Journal of Communication and Media Research is research, with a bias for quantitative and qualitative studies that use any or a combination of the acceptable methods of research. These include Surveys, Content Analysis, and Experiments for quantitative studies; and Observation, Interviews/Focus Groups, and Documentary Analysis for qualitative studies. The journal seeks to contribute to the body of knowledge in the field of communication and media studies and welcomes articles in all areas of communication and the media including, but not limited to, mass communication, mass media channels, traditional communication, organizational communication, interpersonal communication, development communication, public relations, advertising, information communication technologies, the Internet and computer-mediated communication.

*CFP* "RETHINKING THE SPECIES DIVIDE: DISABILITY AND ANIMALITY IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL OF LITERARY AND CULTURAL DISABILITY STUDIES

There is increasing interest in scholarship that looks to intersections between disability studies and critical animal studies. Publications including Sunaura Taylor’s Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (2017), Maren Tova Linett’s Literary Bioethics: Disability, Animality, and the Human (2020), and the edited collection, Disability and Animality (Jenkins et al., 2020) have interrogated the mutual logics of ableism and anthropocentrism in the oppression of disabled-human and animal lives. Equally so, these monographs have broken new ground to propose how fundamental notions of being and community are reconfigured when questions of value and justice are allowed to cross species divides.

This special issue of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies invites articles that explore the myriad ways in which disability and animality are intertwined in literature and culture. A core question that the special issue poses is: How can disabled people (re)claim the animal as an inherent and vital part of their existence, rather than a category that must be denied or overcome in order to obtain the same rights as the non-disabled? This question follows on from Taylor’s provocative comment in Beasts of Burden that ‘Speciesism doesn’t necessarily keep people from wanting to identify as animal; dehumanization does’ (110). Other key questions of the special issue are: What conflicts are apparent between disability studies and critical animal studies as a result of human dependence on animals as a ‘resource’ to meet their service, nutritional, and/or medical needs? How can such conflicts be resolved with mutual benefit for both disabled people and non-disabled animals? Finally, the guest editors of the special issue welcome articles that explore how disabled animals in literature and culture may prompt humans (both disabled and non-disabled) to reassess the anthropocentric biases inherent in notions of productivity and autonomy.

21 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "AFRICA'S DIGITAL YOUTH: EXPLORING MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY COMPETENCIES AND PRACTICES", TRENDS IN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE

Africa's digital youth: Exploring media and information literacy competencies and practices

Trends in Media and Communication Conference, 2021

19-20th October 2021
 
 
The conference will seek to catalogue scholarship on trends emerging around African youth’s digital media practices with a focus on their ability to access, analyze, create, share and use information from digital sources. We invite abstracts of empirical and conceptual papers relating to the theme. 
 
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
  • African youth’s fact checking practices
  • Youth and social media activism in Africa

*CFP* "(DE)CONSTRUCTING ITALIANS: GLOBAL PRODUCTION AND RECEPTION OF ITALIAN CHARACTERS", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(De)Constructing Italians: Global Production and Reception of Italian Characters

International Conference

Milan, December 2-3 2021
 
 
The conference will develop along two key dimensions. The first one, mostly narratological, will investigate the dynamics of the character in relation to the specificities of the texts and the relationships they establish with their user. The second dimension, chiefly socio-anthropological, psychological and economic, will focus on the relationships of characters with broader social and cultural processes.

Authors interested in contributing to the conference are invited to send an abstract (maximum 250 words, excluding bibliography), in Italian or English, to convegno.decoitalians@unicatt.it.

 

*CFP* "DIFUSIÓN SOCIAL DE NOTICIAS: PLATAFORMAS, PÚBLICOS Y DIMENSIONES DE NEWS SHARING", NÚMERO ESPECIAL (ABRIL 2022), REVISTA COMUNICACIÓN Y SOCIEDAD

Internet, las redes sociales y los dispositivos móviles han impulsado el papel activo del público en la difusión, el consumo y la interpretación de los medios. Los públicos ya no son simples receptores finales de un mensaje, sino que actúan como nodos en una red en la que seleccionan, moldean y difunden noticias y otros contenidos mediáticos.  Este nuevo contexto desafía la influencia de los medios de masas y hace que sea vital entender el modo en el que la audiencia comparte y distribuye noticias entre sus contactos.

Este número especial aborda cuestiones que han sido relativamente poco estudiadas, así como la búsqueda de hipótesis contrarias a la intuición que podrían poner en tela de juicio paradigmas establecidos y ampliamente aceptados en la investigación sobre news sharing, como las cámaras de eco, los discursos de incitación al odio, el social news gap o el papel de los líderes de opinión. Si bien la mayor parte de la investigación sobre redes sociales se ha centrado en Twitter, algunos estudios han puesto de relieve que el público comparte y comenta cada vez con más frecuencia las noticias en entornos más privados y de menor tamaño, como los servicios de mensajería instantánea (WhatsApp, Telegram, etc.), los grupos   de Facebook y otros espacios digitales privados o semiprivados.  Además, existe un vacío en la literatura científica en cuanto al aspecto visual de la difusión social de noticias. Se ha de tener en cuenta el peso cada vez mayor de lo audiovisual en la cultura digital contemporánea y el énfasis en los contenidos gráficos en las redes sociales para entender el fenómeno del news sharing. Asimismo, los trabajos sobre difusión social de noticias han tendido a centrarse fundamentalmente en la información política, a menudo relacionados con preocupaciones sobre la vida democrática, la confianza en los medios de comunicación o la desinformación.  Las pautas y rutinas de intercambio de información económica, científica o sobre salud han sido menos exploradas.

20 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN GAME MUSIC AND ELECTRONIC DANCE", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE JOURNAL OF SOUND AND MUSIC IN GAMES

The Journal of Sound and Music in Games invites contributions to its first special issue, in which stylistic and cultural intersections will be explored between game music and electronic dance music.
 
We invite proposals for research articles on game music and electronic dance music, which will be double-blind peer-reviewed and published as a special issue of the/Journal of Sound and Music in Games/. We also welcome proposals for other kinds of materials, which should be discussed with the editors in the first instance.

Themes can include:
  • Influences of game music techniques on dance music production techniques
  • Relationships between game culture and electronic dance music culture, in terms of design, sound, music techniques
  • Game cultural references in electronic dance music
  • Games that employ electronic dance music

*CFP* "PANDEMEDIA. HOW COVID-19 HAS AFFECTED THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN SOCIETY", SPECIAL ISSUE, MEDIEKULTUR JOURNAL

Fundamentally, media technologies facilitate communication between two parties or more across vast distances - synchronously and asynchronously. During the Covid-19 pandemic era, these properties have proven important towards organizing mass testing as well as providing news, updates, and information. In addition to this, the many facets of digital communication in the modern workplace have become even more important. Aside from the many practical aspects where media technologies have proven valuable or necessary, social lives have been mediated as well through familiar social media platforms, message apps, and video conference software. 
 
Moreover, the Covid-19 era has highlighted debates over misinformation, conspiracy theories, fringe online cultures, and the role of surveillance technologies in society. None of these practices represent entirely new forms of media use, but due to the pandemic they have become necessary and apparent in new ways. In summation, this special issue will be open to a wide range of topics within the scope of media culture through the prism of the Covid-19 pandemic.
 
Suggested topics:

*CFP* LLAMADA A PARTICIPACIÓN, II CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL COMUNICACIÓN ESPECIALIZADA

II Congreso Internacional Comunicación Especializada

18 y 19 de Noviembre de 2021 (híbrido)

Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación, Universidad de Málaga

 

 

El periodista especializado se halla entre las fuentes expertas, protagonistas de la noticia, por un lado, y las audiencias interesadas en determinados contenidos, por otra. Para informar a los ciudadanos sobre los mecanismos del mercado o de la administración de Justicia; para contarles los descubrimientos de las ciencias o los fichajes de los clubes deportivos siempre ha sido necesario, en efecto, un profesional que entienda lo que hacen y declaran las fuentes, por un lado; y capaz, al mismo tiempo, de divulgarlo entre personas que, no teniendo una particular formación en esas materias, las siguen con particular interés y tratan de conocerlas y comprenderlas para estar a la altura del tiempo en el que viven.

19 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "POSTHUMANISM AT THE MARGINS: ON FILM, MEDIA, AND NEW WAYS OF BEING", SPECIAL ISSUE, SYNOPTIQUE: JOURNAL OF MOVING IMAGE STUDIES

The term posthumanism has, throughout its relatively short lifespan, swelled to encompass any number of definitions and permutations, ranging from a descriptor for a technological afterlife of the “human” to a critical look at ways of being within a wider ecology. The immediate quandary that any scholar of the posthuman faces is the wrangling of a proper definition for such an expansive yet timely topic. It is precisely this ambiguity that we hope to engage with in this issue of Synoptique, as the amorphous idea of the posthuman offers us the chance to re-examine the “human.”

Traditionally, posthumanism has remained “committed to a specific order of rationality, one rooted in the epistemological locus of the West” (Jackson 2013, 671). By building upon such legacies of radical perspectives that decentre traditional Western humanist paradigms, such as deanthropocentrism, decoloniality, feminist, and Queer lenses, we aim to place posthumanism in conversation with film and media studies, with the goal of highlighting the historically marginalized perspectives central to this intersection. We believe that film and other new media are uniquely situated to address these sets of questions due to the breadth of disciplines they intersect with, as well as their positions between the technological and the cultural. We invite submissions to consider how different forms of media may challenge, transform, and transcend traditional paradigms of the posthuman; we especially invite submissions of alternative media such as video essays, zines, or other art pieces.

*CFP* "ARTISTS' MOVING IMAGE, ECOLOGY AND FUTURE PRACTICES", ISSUE 10 (1/2), MIRAJ: THE MOVING IMAGE AND ART REVIEW JOURNAL

Issue 10:1/2 aims to imagine and examine how practices in artists’ film and video can be transformed by a dedicated attention to notions of the Ecological in its many expanded forms. We invite scholars, artists, writers, film-makers and curators to explore what our role can be in engaging with new ways of thinking and making in response to the climate emergency.

This issue of MIRAJ will therefore address key areas of critical concern, from the culpability of the moving image industry’s extractive and management practices, to the rich potential of the artistic and film making community to shape, challenge and disrupt dominant disciplinary knowledge and habitual practices and its role in the practical organisation of other futures.
 
We invite scholarly articles and essays that:
  • Examine how dominant disciplinary knowledge and habituated practices of the moving image can be challenged and reimagined;
  • explore the value of transdisciplinary and epistemological frameworks to offer new perspectives and models of practice;

*CFP* "POLITICS, PERILS AND PRIVILEGES: IMMOBILITIES IN THE TIME OF GLOBAL PANDEMICS", SPECIAL ISSUE, TRANSITIONS JOURNAL

When the COVID-19 global pandemic struck in early 2020, governments around the world reacted by closing international and national state borders, banning or restricting international and interstate travel, and resorting to enforced lockdowns and curfews. The economic and social impacts of these sudden restrictions in movements have been devastating with the lived experiences of everyone impacted. The employed became unemployed, industries whose entire business models are dependent on human interactions such as tourism, hospitality and entertainment collapsed, supply chains were disrupted, remote working and studying became the norm, families were separated from each other and professional and education opportunities were lost.

People around the world frustrated by the impact the pandemic has had on them, and by the systemic and new inequalities that emerged, voiced their anger through street protests and in the online space with the pandemic fuelling both extreme right wing and left wing fervour. The rapid move to the online space to conduct almost every kind of human activity meant a complete reliance on the digital resulting in new kinds of inequalities and challenges. The rise of the digital in the time of forced immobilities has also created completely new opportunities born out of necessity. While mobility was once the life blood for human and individual necessity, progress and advancement, immobility has shown itself to create perils and privileges never really realised. For example, workers not required to be ‘on site’ are able to set up home offices to work from home.

16 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "ANIMATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY. RETHINKING IMAGES AND TECHNOLOGY", 27TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF FILM STUDIES

Animation in the 21^st Century. Rethinking Images and Technology


Rome, 25-26 November 2021


The conference aims to propose a reflection that examines the dynamics and mechanisms behind the creation of some of the most interesting national and international contemporary animation trends. The topics will place them in close connection with the current media scenario (cinema, advertising, videogames, the web, animated documentaries, TV series, contemporary art, digital culture) and with transmedia aesthetic and narrative forms originating from different cultural paradigms.

The conference will pay particular attention to the conjunction between theories and practices and between mainstream and experimental forms. Hence, it intends to investigate animated films as an industrial, narrative, aesthetic and ideological “system” promoting imaginaries, aesthetics, and values. It also delves into the production of artists who move on the borders, free from conditioning and devoted to the more advanced technological research. Therefore, the conference’s overall aim is to revitalize and address the concept of animation in contemporary visual culture, investigating its theoretical, historical, political, and cultural nature in relation to the new moving images.

*CFP* "TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSIONS IN DIGITAL ACTIVISM AND PROTEST", THEMED ISSUE, REVIEW OF COMMUNICATION JOURNAL

Giuliana Sorce & Delia Dumitrica are currently seeking submissions for a themed issue on Transnational Dimensions in Digital Activism and Protest to be published in the Review of Communication, a flagship journal of the National Communication Association (NCA). There are no APCs and submission and publication is free. Please see the full CFP below. This themed issue aims to map international perspectives on transnational processes in digital activism and protest. Against wider claims that social movements and citizen activism are shifting from the logic of spatial organization to networked flows (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012; Mercea, 2020), this themed issue seeks to illuminate how the global and local come together in networked public spheres. Recent transnational movements such as #MeToo or Black Lives Matter yield the importance of interweaving digital communication, pre-existing activist collectives, and citizen activation on a seemingly global scale. The policing of physical protests during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have intensified reliance on digital technologies among activists and grassroots collectives (Sorce & Dumitrica, 2021), further enhancing the appeal to create transnational ties and globalize movement appeals.

We ask how political causes circulate globally, what role digital technologies play, and ultimately, what “transnational” means for seemingly universal causes, global collective identity, and activist ractice. In reflecting how activists across the globe employ digital media to construct a civic imaginary of a transnational polity, attention must be paid to the dialectical nature of transnational processes that simultaneously magnify the importance of locality while normalizing hybridity (Roudometof, 2016; Kraidy, 2005; Pieterse, 2015).

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION MAINTENANCE IN LONGUE DURÉE", A PAPER-BASED WORKSHOP

In the last decades, more and more scholars have claimed for an inclusion of maintenance among the key topics and key questions of technology (Edgerton 2007, Jackson 2014, Russell and Vinsel 2018, Henke and Sims 2020,). Communication and media studies have just partially included in their methodological and analytical tools reflections on maintenance (see Balbi and Leggero 2020; Weber and Krebs 2021) and this paper-based workshop aims to advance in this aspect adding another fundamental yet underestimated layer in communication and maintenance research: the longue durée.

Maintenance of communication infrastructures, for example, is a long-term process lasting for decades or even centuries. On the one hand, roads, networks and cables are constantly maintained to keep them functioning but, on the other, to understand their strategic relevance is important to adopt a longue durée perspective (Braudel 1958), since those channels of communication have often political, economic, and socio-cultural relevance. Sometimes, maintenance has a strong effect not only in preserving communication infrastructures, but also in modifying or even dismantling them. In long terms, communications can be radically changed because of maintenance and transformed into something totally different from what was originally to be maintained.

15 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "POETIC INSURRECTIONS. ROMANTIC LEGACIES IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY FILM AESTHETICS", INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES CONFERENCE

Poetic Insurrections. Romantic Legacies in Modern and Contemporary Film Aesthetics


20-21 January 2022
 

The ‘return’ to Romanticism in the recent consideration of modernist cinemas (see Richard Suchenski, Projections of Memory: Romanticism, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of Film; Daniel Morgan, Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema) can be taken as a way to frame the apparent contradictions in the work of a number of key figures: the revolutionary cinema of Jean-Luc Godard seems at odds with the seeming reactionism of a sanctification of natural beauty in his ‘late’ works. The strict materialism of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, in its turn, gave way to reflections on the necessity of myth and utopian ideals in the politicization of art. And although the cinema of Marguerite Duras is characterized by a destructive negativity, her films exhibit a minute attention to material presence. We believe that the same contradictions that characterize these works can be found in the films of a number of contemporary filmmakers - Chantal Akerman, Abbas Kiarostami, Hong Sang-soo, Wang Bing, Lav Diaz, Albert Serra etc. - allowing us to align them with the project of aesthetic modernism. It is our contention (one we share with Nancy & Lacoue-Labarthe, Rancière, J.M. Schaeffer and others) that this project can indeed best be approached by considering its romantic undercurrent.

*CFP* "ENTERTAINMENT AND AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE SINCE 1950", COLLECTION OF ESSAYS

Popular Culture has been an integral factor in the fabric of America since its inception. Indeed, the clothes we wear, the music we listen to, the film and television we watch, literature we consume and other facets of our daily being is heavily, if not entirely influenced by the culture that we reside in. Exploring this culture can reveal some of our most deeply held beliefs and assumptions, ideas that we may otherwise take for granted. This is particularly the case since the mid 20th century. 

We are soliciting proposals for a collection of essays on Entertainment and American Popular Culture Since 1950. Submitted proposals should discuss any of the following topics, celebrities, events, awards, music, pageants, film, television, race, gender, religion, literature, sexuality, family. technology etc… Essays must focus on the topic of entertainment or the entertainment industry in some fashion.

While we will consider submissions from ABD’S and individuals from varied academic backgrounds, STRONG PREFERENCE will be given to Ph.D.’s, Ed.D’s, MFA’s, MBA’s , Juris Doctorate’s , Journalists, MD’s and others with terminal degrees. 

*CFP* “DIPLOMACIA PÚBLICA: NARRATIVAS ESTRATÉGICAS PARA UN MUNDO EN CAMBIO", NÚMERO ESPECIAL, COMMUNICATION & SOCIETY JOURNAL

El estudio de la diplomacia pública es resultado de la inexorable vinculación que existe entre las relaciones internacionales y la comunicación global. Estados Unidos, Rusia, China, Turquía, Brasil o la propia Unión Europea compiten por posicionarse en el orden mundial, la proyección de valores y la legitimidad de la acción exterior. Tras una edad dorada de la diplomacia pública (1990-2010), la propaganda, la injerencia en los procesos electorales y la desinstitucionalización de la práctica diplomática han afectado el modo de conducir la acción exterior. La sobreexposición presidencial, los tuits (en nuestra opinión, el tuit es la unidad de medida, pero podemos escribir “las redes sociales”, que es más amplio) y el lenguaje de las emociones son argumentos de peso en la construcción de la agenda de relaciones internacionales por encima de los acuerdos multilaterales. La comunicación de los gobiernos, el saber diplomático, la reconstrucción del proyecto político europeo, los valores del liderazgo chino o el legado del trumpismo han modificado el manejo de la diplomacia. De origen norteamericano y con eco europeo, la diplomacia pública hoy aparece entre las prioridades de gobiernos, ciudades, instituciones internacionales y actores privados, que aspiran a vertebrar la comunicación, la representación ciudadana y el reconocimiento internacional. Por este motivo, es pertinente revisar los avances en la disciplina de modo que se construya un mejor corpus teórico acorde con la realidad de la globalización post-covid. El cambio climático, las migraciones, la salud pública global, la perspectiva de género o la gestión de la memoria constituyen nuevas fuentes de valor para la comunicación internacional de los países y los actores globales.

14 de julio de 2021

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON METHODOLOGIES IN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH (COIME 2021)

 The 8th International Conference on Methodologies in Communication Research (COIME 2021)

Facultad de Ciencias de la Información

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

2,3 & 4 November, 2021

 

We are accepting proposals for papers for COIME 2021, the 8th International Conference on Methodologies in Communication Research. November 2 to 4 at the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (in person and online).

Send an abstract here until September 19, 2021.
  • Papers must necessarily deal with methodological aspects of communication research.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, 2021 ISSUES, TRANSLATION REVIEW JOURNAL

The editors of Translation Review are inviting submissions:

  • translations of contemporary international writers into English 
  • submissions that discuss the process and practical problems of translating, including the reconstruction of the translation process. 
  • interviews with translators 
  • manuscritps that address the concept of translation in the visual and musical arts 
  • translation in the digital age

 

Guidelines 

Please note that all scholarly manuscripts should follow the Chicago Manual of Style EB (endnotes and bibliography).

*CFP* "LA NOCHE EN EL MUNDO IBÉRICO E IBEROAMERICANO", XL CONGRESO DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES HISPANISTES FRANÇAIS

La noche en el mundo ibérico e iberoamericano

XL Congreso de la Société des Hispanistes Français - SHF

de 8 a 10 de junio de 2022

Universidad de Artois (Arras, Francia)

 

Dedicado a la temática de la noche en el mundo ibérico e iberoamericano el congreso se celebrará en la Universidad de Artois (Arras, Francia), de 8 a 10 de junio de 2022, en el marco del XL Congreso de la Sociedad de Hispanistas Franceses (SHF)

Será la ocasión de sacar a la luz percepciones diferentes y de cuestionar la evolución de las representaciones de la noche y de las realidades unidas a este espacio-tiempo a lo largo de las épocas y según las áreas culturales. Podrán contemplarse varios enfoques:

13 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND GLOBAL ADAPTATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE", CONFERENCE

Women’s Rights and Global Adaptations of Shakespeare

November 25-26, 2021

Freie Universität Berlin

 

Many young contemporary directors in theatre and cinema find in the plays of William Shakespeare a unique opportunity not only to reflect on but also to challenge patriarchal traditions and structures of power. However, few, if any, conferences have acknowledged a growing willingness in productions of Shakespeare to confront problems surrounding the status of women. The goal of “Women’s Rights and Global Adaptations of Shakespeare” is to explore how Shakespeare’s plays have performed this function, and to consider the ways in which they can further imagine, and contribute to, more socially and politically equal futures for women across the globe. 

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

*CFP* CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER, ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN EUROPEAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION SERIES

The Series Editors Galina Miazhevich, Christina Holtz-Bacha and Ilija Tomanic Trivundza invite the submission of book proposals for the Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education Series.

The Book Series aims to provide a diverse overview of the work of ECREA members and working groups, showcasing

  • diversity of topics and areas within the field of contemporary media and communication research, and 
  • addressing this diversity from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, and 
  • promoting collaborative research of our members, either within or between ECREA Sections, Networks and Temporary Working Groups (S/N/TWGs).

 

New Series Feature – Open Access

*CFP* "CINCUENTA AÑOS EN LA FORMACIÓN DE COMUNICADORES EN IBEROAMÉRICA", NÚMERO 37 (2022-1), REVISTA CONTRATEXTO

Después de cincuenta años de experiencia universitaria en la formación de comunicadores en Iberoamérica, podemos esbozar ideas y reflexiones críticas para entender los cambios por los que hemos pasado, hacer un balance de logros y limitaciones, así como proyectarnos en un tiempo de profunda incertidumbre a causa de la crisis sanitaria que enfrentamos desde el 2020. En el 2022, además, la Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad de Lima cumplirá cincuenta años y tenemos ante nosotros la posibilidad de mirarnos y extender nuestro balance sobre lo ocurrido entre las instituciones universitarias con las cuales hemos crecido y cooperado a lo largo de estas décadas. Pero, además, podemos examinar el ejercicio de los profesionales formados en las aulas universitarias en Iberoamérica.

La vida académica en nuestras facultades y programas de comunicación aporta ofreciendo profesionales, así como conocimiento y creatividad que le permite intervenir en el destino colectivo de nuestras sociedades, de forma autónoma, con un espíritu vivo y una ética que resguarde las múltiples miradas y el aporte en la formación de ciudadanos para el ejercicio de la vida pública. No se trata solamente de realizar un examen histórico de los estudios universitarios, necesario para contextualizar el tema, sino de profundizar y evaluar las diferentes dimensiones referidas a los docentes y los alumnos, los modelos de enseñanza, la investigación y la transferencia, así como los vínculos con la comunidad científica, el mercado laboral y los aportes a la sociedad.

12 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "AFFECTING GAME SPACE: THEORY AND PRACTICE", VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Affecting Game Space: Theory and Practice

3rd September 2021

Virtual conference

 

From claustrophobic confines to sublime vistas, game spaces have conjured affects since the medium’s inception. Whether it be nostalgia for the remastered landscape, the vertigo of free diving in VR, or the conviviality of gathering around landmarks in Pokémon GO, affect reciprocally connects players to physical and virtual spaces. Haptics, ray tracing and photogrammetry are allowing us to ‘feel’ game worlds in new and increasingly tangible ways. As Nitsche observes: “Video game spaces stage our dreams and nightmares and they seem to get better at it every year” (2008: 2). How then do we (co-)design, feel, construct and play with affect in game spaces?

As the inaugural event of the ‘Game Worlds’ research cluster connecting theory and design at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Data, Culture and Society, the ‘Affecting Game Space’ online conference will be built around quickfire presentations followed by breakout groups, with the potential for demo/exhibition space. We hope to welcome you to a network of like-minded academics and practitioners based at The University of Edinburgh virtually through the spatial video conferencing platform ‘Gather,’ facilitating free movement, conversation and networking.

DEFENSA DE TESIS "PROGRAMACIÓN Y RECEPCIÓN DE ANIME EN LA DÉCADA DE LOS NOVENTA EN ESPAÑA: LA FUNCIÓN DEL DOBLAJE EN LA MODIFICACIÓN DE IDENTIDADES NO NORMATIVAS"

  Próxima defensa de tesis del Departamento de Comunicación de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.


Información de la tesis: 


"Programación y recepción de anime en la década de los noventa en España: la función del doblaje en la modificación de identidades no normativas"

Autor/a: DANIEL FERRERA LÓPEZ

*CFP* "THE SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS IN TIMES OF INFODEMICS", MEKK CONFERENCE

The safety of journalists in times of infodemics

Oslo 2 and 3 November 2021

The research group MEKK

Oslo Metropolitan University

 

The term ‘infodemics’ had its breakthrough in 2020. The term – a combination of information and pandemics – describes a rapid and important spread of both factual and false information in a situation marked by uncertainty, also for those who are expected to disseminate information about the pandemic. In some countries journalists are being deprived of the right to report on the pandemic and experience increased risk associated with covering the governments’ social and economic policies. Several organizations working with the safety of journalists, such as Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF) have repeatedly documented in 2020 attacks and direct violence against journalists covering Covid-19. This includes both coverage of the actual situation at a given time, as well as for instance coverage of demonstrations against strict Covid measures.

9 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "TEACHING (WITH) POPULAR MUSIC", SPECIAL ISSUE, TEACHING MEDIA QUARTERLY

Teaching Media Quarterly is happy to share the latest call for lesson plan submissions on “Teaching (with) Popular Music" with you and please share widely!

“We both had to admit that popular songs really had no academic significance.” This is what Ray B. Browne was told upon being rejected from a journal in the first issue of Popular Music and Society fifty years ago. This prejudice still exists in the academy and has been perpetuated in the curriculums across a number of disciplines. However, with plenty of academic monographs and a good amount of dedicated peer-reviewed journals today, popular music is now a prolific field for critical and interdisciplinary inquiries. 

Popular music scholarship explores musical (sub)cultures, music in visual and digital media, music as propaganda, music as activism, and more. Thus, music is a ripe avenue through which media scholars contend with issues of power, identity, nationalism, environmentalism, (de)coloniality, globalization, and social justice. For media instructors, then, teaching a critical perspective on popular music can address many of the multisensory and transdisciplinary dimensions of media literacy.

*CFP* "30 YEARS SINCE THE ATTACK ON DUBROVNIK: POLITICAL, COMMUNICATIONAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE CITY UNDER SIEGE", SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

Scientific conference titled “30 years since the attack on Dubrovnik: Political, communicational and cultural aspects of the city under siege” will be held on October 1-2, 2021 at the University of Dubrovnik.

Thirty years after the attacks on Dubrovnik, the University of Dubrovnik in cooperation with the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts and Linnaeus University, Sweden, are organizing an interdisciplinary conference on political, communicational and cultural aspects of the city under siege. A special focus of the conference will be given to analysis and comparisons with other cities that were under siege (Vukovar, Sarajevo, Srebrenica...) during the wars in the former Yugoslavia (1991-1999), but comparisons with other conflicts are also welcome.

Proposals may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

  • Understanding the context: the dissolution of Yugoslavia 
  • War reporting practices from the Dubrovnik area; 
  • Media analysis on the subject of war in Dubrovnik, Croatia and the ex-Yugoslav area from 1988 to 1995; 

*CFP* "THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF BLACK HORROR FILM", BOOK CHAPTER

Since the release of Jordan Peele’s Academy Award-winning horror hit, Get Out (2017), interest in Black horror films has erupted. This renewed intrigue in the stories of Black life, history, and culture, or ‘Blackness’ has taken two forms. First, the history and politics of race has been centered in the genre. Second, Black horror has become an increasingly visible topic in mainstream discourses with scholars, critics, and fans contending that Black horror is seeing its “renaissance.”

However, in the U.S., critical attention to Blackness in horror has primarily focused on the U.S. and western world; this, despite the fact that Blacks and Black stories have featured prominently in the genre--as actors, screenwriters, directors, producers—globally and across cultures. We invite contributions that explore Global Black horror cinema, across media platforms (e.g., theatrical releases, streaming services, etc.), by interrogating Blackness and the ways in which it manifests in films across the diaspora and around the world. Ours is an ambitious goal: to present a collection that leaves no continent unexamined.

This project is under contract with Oxford University Press.

We invite interested contributors to propose essays by submitting 250-word abstracts, along with 3 keywords. Example questions/themes include:

8 de julio de 2021

*CFP* "PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING AND AUTHENTICITY", SPECIAL ISSUE, CELEBRITY STUDIES JOURNAL

We are currently editing a special issue of Celebrity Studies on the topic of Professional Wrestling and Authenticity. At present the issue ranges from general theorisations to specific case studies unpacking how authenticity and celebrity can be figured in the world of wrestling, drawing upon star studies, celebrity studies, sports studies and audience studies to gain a full understanding of the wrestling star image.

We are seeking further submissions to our issue, particularly focussed on how formations of authenticity and celebrity within wrestling have been impacted by the pandemic.

Article topics might include, but are not limited to:

  • Wrestlers, social media, and Covid awareness 
  • Case studies of wrestler star images and transitions to new forms of labour (e.g. streaming, OnlyFans) 
  • The development of ‘cinematic’ wrestling and its relationship to ‘authentic’ performance

 

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION IN DEFENSE OF NONHUMAN ANIMALS DURING AN EXTINCTION AND CLIMATE CRISIS", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNALISM AND MEDIA JOURNAL

As modern science and critical scholarship are recognizing nonhuman animals as fellow subjects and conscious, sentient beings with interests deserving of respect, moral dilemmas abound as humanity acknowledges the threats our activities pose to human and nonhuman animal life, including the sixth mass extinction and anthropogenic climate change. In this Special Issue, we aim to focus on the impact this environmental havoc is having on nonhuman animals living in nature (including those free roaming animals who coexist in our urban spaces) and the vital role that media and communication play in contributing to and remedying these crises. 

We invite concerned scholars to explore how issues affecting “wildlife” are constructed in media discourses or perceived and acted upon by media audiences/publics (media is broadly defined to include journalism, film and television, advertising, social media, or campaigns). Consider any of the following issues affecting animals in nature to critically interrogate from a communication and representation perspective:

*CFP* "CRITICAL ICT INFRASTRUCTURES AND PLATFORMS", 14TH CMI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Critical ICT Infrastructures and Platforms

14th CMI International Conference

25 - 26 November 2021

Hybrid (Online / In-Person)

 

ICT infrastructures and platforms are increasingly pervasive and critical for societies, systems and organizations and for individuals. It is, therefore, of great importance that efficient and resilient infrastructures are developed and deployed and that disruptions of services caused by either cyber-attacks or other interruptions of services are mitigated. Also, as digital platforms constitute crucial communication infrastructures for societies, it is important that such platforms contribute to democratic processes and economic and social fairness. The 14th CMI conference will be concerned with these topics from different complementary angles: The development and deployment of fast and efficient communication infrastructures including cloud and edge technologies; resilience of ICT systems in order to increase cyber security and mitigate cyber-attacks; institution of social practices and governance approaches that will promote democratic discussions and processes, contribute to economic and social development, equity and fairness, and protect privacy.

7 de julio de 2021

DEFENSA DE TESIS "EL PROCESO REVOLUCIONARIO Y EL CONFLICTO ARMADO SITIO A TRAVÉS DE SU CIUDADANÍA. EL STORYTELLING DE LOS CARTELES DEL PUEBLO DE KAFRANBEL"

 Próxima defensa de tesis del Departamento de Comunicación de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.


Información de la tesis: 


"El proceso revolucionario y el conflicto armado sirio a través de su ciudadanía. El storytelling de los carteles del pueblo de Kafranbel"

Autor/a: LEILA NACHAWATI REGO

*CFP* "NAVIGATING DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND CHALLENGES FOR ORGANIZATIONS", BOOK CHAPTER

The dialogue between organizational communication and digital communication is a common practice in contemporary organizations. This cross working allows the development of new narratives inside and outside organizations, causing communication professionals to face a moment of change in communication management, regarding form, content and production. Digital communication is not developing a virtual world, but a real virtuality integrated with other forms of interaction in an increasingly "hybridized" everyday life. In fact, the relationship between organizations and its publics evolved into more symmetrical models - allowed by digital media -, being imperative the recognition of the inevitable involvement of citizens in organizational communication processes that give rise to new business and institutional choices. On the other hand, the relationship that audiences establish with organizational information in digital environments may also interfere with the way in which each individual experiences daily life. Thus, the impacts are conjoint and paradoxical. It is well known that public involvement has the power to promote an active circulation of media content and that this can generate economic and cultural value for organizations. The current perspectives on interactions between audiences, organizations and content production suggest a relational logic between audiences and media, through new productivity proposals. In this sense it is interesting to observe the reasoning of audience experience through the concepts of interactivity and participation. However, it can be observed a gap between the intentions of communication professionals and their organizations and the effective circulation and content retention among the audiences of interest, as well as the distinction between informing and communicating. Thus, the goal of this book Navigating Digital Communication and Challenges for Organizations is to provide an in-depth review of research related to the concepts and theories around topics such as Publics and Productivity, Interactivity and Participation in organizational communication settings, including, but not limited to conceptualizations, theoretical foundations, conceptual analysis, empirical studies, cases, applications, and interventions. We aim to contribute to an improvement in our understanding of Digital Communication in Organizations, and to present resources to better navigate this difficult times of organizational communication management.

*CFP* "ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNALISM: EMERGING MODELS AND LIVED EXPERIENCES. LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD", VOL. 8 Nº 2 (2022), BRAZILIAN JOURNALISM RESEARCH

This special edition of Brazilian Journalism Research interrogates and collates the links between entrepreneurialism and journalism, in emergent journalistic practices and socioeconomic models. The growing recognition of entrepreneurial values and practices in the journalism domain has occurred against a backdrop of interlinked changes in journalism and media in the economic, technological, social, ideological and regulatory terrains. These are most prominent not only in the emergence of new digital actors and new configurations of national and international media landscapes but also in the reframing of normative journalistic practices, organisational structures, modes of production, distribution and financial sustainability. In this vein then, entrepreneurial journalism delineates new relations between actors, publics and domains of activity (Hang and Van Weezel, 2005; Mitchelstein and Boczkowski, 2009; Lee-Wright et al., 2012; Mercier and Pignard-Cheynel, 2014; Carbasse, 2015; Grohmann et al., 2019).

Taking shape in a movement which moves beyond traditional journalism boundaries (Neff et al., 2005) these transformations have created favourable conditions for new editorial projects to grow outside of traditional legacy, corporate or mainstream media. They exist as heterogeneous independent structures where journalists are confronted with operational challenges and financial obstacles that question any hard divide between editorial and business operations, which are little understood. New journalistic techniques and products are developed and iterated through a process of experimentation outside of normative practices. Whether they openly embrace the ‘entrepreneurial journalism’ label (Briggs, 2011) as distinguished at least in part from the other non-salaried forms of employment such as freelance (De Cock and De Smaele, 2016) or whether they adhere to certain entrepreneurial competences and general qualities without wanting to be overtly labelled, these journalistic projects are united by a certain level in their journalistic practices of deindustrialization and decentralisation. They necessitate new definitions and understandings hinged on flexible structures and new manners of doing and financing journalism.

6 de julio de 2021

DEFENSA DE TESIS "PERIODISMO CIUDADANO PARA LA DEFENSA DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS. LA IMPORTANCIA DE LA VERIFICACIÓN. EL CASO DE WITNESS.ORG"

 Próxima defensa de tesis del Departamento de Comunicación de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.


Información de la tesis: 


"Periodismo Ciudadano para la defensa de los derechos humanos. La importancia de la verificación. El caso de Witness.org"

Autor/a: ÓSCAR ESPIRITUSANTO NICOLÁS

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, TEBEC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021

TEBEC International Conference 2021

August 31st   – September 1st, 2021

Tel Aviv Israel

 

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the TEBEC International Conference 2021 which will be held in Israel, from August 31st – September 1st, 2021. The conference will be organized by TEBEC (Tourism, Economic, Business, education conference).

Given the continued global health emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic, TEBEC 2021 will be held as a hybrid conference (online and offline), and further detailed information will be announced based on the status of COVID-19.

The TEBEC International Conference 2021 is to bring together international researchers, government officials and industry practitioners to share their research on the issues related to Media and communication, tourism, Economic, Business, education social science.